PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Develops and conducts independent research project; supervises research activities of graduate students; coordinates scientific, organizational and financial aspects of the research currently funded by the Delaware Center for Transportation and the department of civil and environmental engineering; presents research at local, national, and international seminars and scientific meetings; prepares manuscripts for publications in peer-reviewed journals; identifies opportunities and writes research proposals to secure research funding for future projects; serves as project leader on research programs and multiple investigator projects; develops and cultivates professional contacts with scientists and funding agencies; provides technical leadership and consultation to professional co-workers, collaborators, and students; performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

Serving as Principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on various studies and responsible for directing many day-to-day activities of members of a research team that includes graduate students and undergraduates. My duties include collection, organization, technical analysis of data; interpreting results and identifying engineering issues based on statistical analysis; writing technical reports summarizing conclusions and recommendations. Typical projects include, but are not limited to, application of GPS to travel time and delay measurements; capacities of various freeway work zone lane closure configurations; traffic operational and safety evaluation; multi-modal studies involving interactions between vehicular, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic; intersection and corridor improvement studies; signal phasing and timing optimization studies; micro-simulation modeling, etc.

Oversight of the implementation of research outcomes: follow up on all research and development projects that are completed and final reports submitted to project managers; develop the research tracking form to facilitate information gathering from project managers; identify research needs and submitting proposals; identify a potential partner/project manager at DelDOT; utilizing GPS to collect travel time and delay data and gives a data summary sheet and Geographic information System (GIS) database; review conference/journal papers; review proposals. Teach Synchro and Vissim simulation software to undergraduate students.

Conducted research analysis for the Strategic Highways Research Program (project SHRP2-C05) that focused on congestion and safety improvements; participated in project meetings and addressed questions related to the project; authored technical reports, papers, and memos as needed for the project; prepared presentations, handouts, and other information sheets; wrote research proposals, interim reports and final reports; improved simulation models to quantify the capacity benefits of operations, design, and technology improvements at the network level for both new and existing facilities and provide transportation planners with the information and tools to analyze operational improvements as an alternative to traditional construction.

Assisted students with weekly homework assignments, projects and laboratory data processing; graded students’ homework, and quizzes; created questions for midterm and final exams; enhanced laboratory facilities; developed a spreadsheet-based tool that enables students to better understand the sequential four-step model and urban transportation planning (UTP) procedure.

Provided research data, analysis, and reporting in support of the programs and projects of the city of Corvallis and the Portland urban area; analyzed site plan drawings for transportation impacts and recommended changes or mitigation; conducted analysis with PTV’s VISUM regional travel demand model and traffic design software such as AutoCAD, Synchro, VISSIM etc.

How can Delaware take next steps in preparing for protection and reconstruction of DelDOT assets in the event of a worst case scenario hurricane? (Phase 2). Mingxin Li (PI), Fengyan Shi (Co-PI), and Jing Gao (Co-PI). Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT). 2019-2020.

How much can off-peak freight delivery reduce emissions and congestion in the DVRPC and WILMAPCO MPO’s. Mingxin Li (PI) and Ardeshir Faghri (Co-PI). Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT). 2019-2020.

Co-Evolution of Transportation and Land Use: Modeling Historical Dependencies in Land Use and Transportation Decision. Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (OTREC). 05/22/2007-05/31/2008.

Reviewer for Academic Journals

IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Annals of GIS
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
Cities: International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
Journal of Modern Transportation (Handling Editor)
International Journal of Digital Earth
Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering
Maritime Policy & Management
Public Works Management and Policy
Journal of Transportation Security
Journal of Location Based Services
Transportation Planning and Technology
Journal of Transportation Engineering
Journal of Airport Management
Journal of the Transportation Research Forum
Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
Research in Transportation Business & Management
European Transport Research Review
International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management

Frey R., Faghri, A., Li, M. (2014). The Development of an Expert System for Effective Countermeasure Identification at Rural Unsignalized Intersections. International Journal of Information Science and Intelligent System, 3(1), 23-40.